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before and after, diy, halloween, holiday, my home, tutorial · October 5, 2016

Make a Giant Halloween Typographical Sign!

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Make a Giant Halloween Typographical Sign


Make a giant halloween typographical sign. Use an inexpensive board and turn it into a halloween centerpiece for your home!

Make Giant Halloween Typographical Signs. I love anything really small or really large. A few years ago I started making giant signs for my porch. It’s a really easy and inexpensive way to add a punch to your seasonal or everyday decorating. I use lumber from the hardware store for the signs. You can cut them to any size – depending on what you are spelling and the space you want to decorate! I use unfinished pine shelf boards from the hardware store. If you know the approximate length of the board you want you can have the helpful hardware store workers cut the board for you. So easy.

Make a Giant Typographical Sign. It's an easy and inexpensive way to decorate. Use a plain pine shelf board from your hardware store and make it into something memorable!

Here’s how I make Giant Typographical Signs:

Make a Giant Typographical Sign. It's an easy and inexpensive way to decorate. Use a plain pine shelf board from your hardware store and make it into something memorable!


Make a Giant Halloween Typographical Sign


 

  • Go down to the hardware store and buy an unfinished shelf. I bought pine and it comes in 4 foot sections – I didn’t even have to cut it. $6!
  • Pick out two spray paint colors. If they have a high contrast, your word will stand out better.
  • A vinyl cutting machine is great. If you don’t have one, you could print out the letters on your printer and then trace them onto vinyl and cut that out. But that might take a long time.
  • Design your word on your computer and then cut it out on your vinyl cutting machine.
  • Take your board and spray paint it the color that you want the words to appear. My letters are white so I painted my board white first.
  • Once the board is dry, take the vinyl you have cut out and transfer it onto transfer paper with the letters only — not the outlines.
  • Put the vinyl onto the board and smooth down the edges really well with a credit card or burnisher.
  • Take the board outside and spray paint it with the background color you’ve picked out – I painted the sign black.
  • Once the second color of spray paint is dry, peel the vinyl off and sand the edges of the board.
  • You can apply a little stain to the edges if you want.
  • Then the last thing to do is add a hanger to the back of the board or just lean it against a wall and ADMIRE your work!!

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Here’s how the sign looks on my 2016 Witching Hour Porch:

Make a Giant Typographical Sign. It's an easy and inexpensive way to decorate. Use a plain pine shelf board from your hardware store and make it into something memorable!


Make a Giant Halloween Typographical Sign


 

And here are a few other GIANT typographical signs I have made in the past:

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Giant Love Sign

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Giant Choose Happy Sign

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Giant Autumn Sign

Make a Giant Typographical Sign. It's an easy and inexpensive way to decorate. Use a plain pine shelf board from your hardware store and make it into something memorable!

Giant Holiday Sign

 

Are you decorating for Halloween? 

What projects are you working on? 

Have a great day! 

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Posted By: Jen · In: before and after, diy, halloween, holiday, my home, tutorial

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Comments

  1. Dee Covey says

    September 9, 2017 at 5:01 PM

    I do this same concept, but use contact paper for my letters. Saves my vinyl. Contact paper will cut on any cutting machine. I have a Cricut. Works great!

  2. Larryicova says

    October 31, 2016 at 6:12 AM

    Halo! http://meldonium.webuje.cz/

  3. Lolly Jane says

    October 6, 2016 at 4:03 PM

    So fun, Jen! Your house is darling and we’re in love with that door color!

  4. Annie says

    October 6, 2016 at 8:49 AM

    What a great idea! POP to any decorating.

Hi! I'm Jen Hadfield. I'm a mom of 5 restoring an 1891 home in the heart of Salt Lake City. I love being creative and sharing simple ideas to make your life easier and more beautiful!

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